OPPO Enco Buds 3 Pro+ Review: Best Budget Earbuds of 2025

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In the hotly contested Indian TWS market, OPPO has carved a unique place for itself with the Enco lineup. Its buds have always had great sound and tuning, all while being exceptional value for money, to the point that my last three earbuds were all from OPPO. The Enco Buds 3 Pro Plus are OPPO’s latest entry in the market. Launched alongside the Find X9 series, they build on its little brother, the Pro, and add improved tuning and, most importantly, active noise cancellation.

OPPO sent over their new earbuds almost a week back, and since then, I’ve taken them to the gym, been on a road trip, and even flown across the country to a launch event. This review will share my experience with the Enco Buds 3 Pro and help you decide whether to spend ₹2,099 (offer price ₹1,899 until December 10) on them or not. Spoiler alert, they are plenty good.

OPPO Enco Buds 3 Pro+

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Summary

At INR 2,099, the OPPO Enco Buds 3 Pro+ are priced INR 300 higher than the regular Pro earbuds. For the money, you get arguably a better design, inclusion of ANC that works really well, and a well-balanced sound profile. All this, coupled with the comfortable fit, makes the Buds 3 Pro+ a really decent option for anyone shopping in the segment.

Design & Comfort

The Enco 3 Pro+ are a pretty standard-looking pair of earbuds. The design, while looking like a spitting image of the recently launched OnePlus Nord Buds 3 Pro, is really good. You get a case that’s pill-shaped, meaning it fits right in your palms and doesn’t protrude too much from your jeans pocket. The dark blue matte finish is definitely the highlight, as it not only looks super pretty but also protects the case from unnecessary scratches. The opening and closing mechanism is satisfactory, so you can use the case as a fidget toy as well. Speaking of the case, OPPO has thankfully included a physical pairing button, which takes away the hassle of fiddling with touch controls when pairing with a new device.

Comfort is a tricky thing to answer when it comes to earbuds. That’s because everyone’s ears are different, and earbuds that fit me well might not fit you. Nevertheless, I am a fan of the Enco 3 Pro+ because it fits me amazingly. My ears aren’t the standard shape, and it was refreshing to use a pair of earbuds that don’t slide off during bench press. OPPO has also bundled a couple of differently sized tips, so if the pre-applied ones feel small or large, you can experiment with others. The buds are also IP55 certified, meaning they can survive sweaty gym sessions and light drizzle, but not submersion.

Sound Quality & Battery Life

Both the OPPO Enco Buds 3 Pro+ and the regular 3 Pro house the same 12.4mm drivers, and the sound quality is exactly what you can expect. Like I said in my 3 Pro review, OPPO’s sound tuning is the best in the business, with earbuds sounding perfectly balanced, as all things should be, while maintaining decent clarity and a good amount of bass. While there is no full equalizer, which is very unfortunate, the three sound modes are plenty good. The 3 Pro+ default to the Original Sound setting, and I’ll suggest keeping them there, as it offers the best audio. If you want a bit more bass, there’s Bass Boost, or if you like listening to podcasts, the Clear Vocals option enhances the dialogue for better clarity.

Beyond music, I connected the buds to my handy MacBook for a quick Pluribus episode, and the experience was really good. The latency was sharp, and the dialogues were crisp as well. The earbuds also support the AAC codec. Call quality was top-notch during my limited testing, with my friends reporting a clear voice and minimal background noise. On the subject of background, the Enco 3 Pro+ supports up to 32dB of active noise cancellation. In practice, it was enough to block out most noise while sitting inside an airplane without a hitch. Sure, you can still hear some engine noise, but with a song playing at 50% volume, it all just vanishes away.

Battery life is another strong point for the Enco Buds 3 Pro+. In my testing, with ANC on most of the time, I got roughly 25 hours of listening time before needing to recharge the case. The buds themselves can last 7 hours of a continuous listening session. Beyond that, they also support fast charging, going from 20% to 90% in just 30 minutes.

Controls & Companion App

If you’ve read my previous reviews, then you know controls are a super easy thing to mess up, take the Nothing Ear (a) for example. Fortunately, OPPO’s controls have always worked decently for me, and the same is true for the 3 Pro+. A single or double tap can be configured to play/pause, skip to the previous or next track, or even trigger the Voice Assistant or Game Mode. A touch-and-hold can be used to enable ANC or Transparency mode.

All this is managed via the HeyMelody app or the Bluetooth settings on OPPO and OnePlus phones. The app is fairly standard, allowing you to configure most general settings like sound modes and changing what a gesture does. There’s also a Find My Earbud setting, which was put to the test pretty early: I dropped my buds while exiting a car and had to look for them on a quiet street at night. Since the buds support Bluetooth 5.4, you can also configure dual pairing.

Verdict

A person holding the OPPO Enco Buds 3 Pro+

At ₹2,099, the OPPO Enco Buds 3 Pro+ are priced INR 300 higher than the regular Pro earbuds. For the money, you get arguably a better design, inclusion of ANC that works really well, and a well-balanced sound profile. All this, coupled with the comfortable fit, makes the Buds 3 Pro+ a really decent option for anyone shopping in the segment.

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Crypto’s Most Powerful PAC Sends a Warning to Politicians: Resistance Is Futile
Congressman Al Green, the incumbent representative for the 18th Congressional District in Texas, lost to fellow House Representative Christian Menefee in a runoff election in the Democratic primary for a seat in Congress on Tuesday, and one crypto-focused political action committee (PAC) announced that the loss should be taken as a warning shot to future candidates. Fairshake and other crypto-related PACs dumped millions of dollars into the primary election to oust Green, who has held a seat in Congress for twenty years. The contest played out across multiple stages following Republican-led redistricting that effectively merged elements of two Houston-area congressional districts into one. The redraw consolidated portions of both incumbents’ districts into a newly drawn 18th, forcing the two Democratic incumbents to compete against each other. In the March primary, both Menefee and Green advanced as the top two finishers but fell short of a majority, forcing the runoff, which Menefee won with nearly 70% of the vote. The victory in the safely Democratic district means Menefee is heavily favored in the November general election. Fairshake and its affiliated group Protect Progress poured millions into backing Menefee, with The Texas Tribune reporting more than million in outside spending from one crypto super PAC alone, the Fairshake-affiliated Protect Progress. According to The Block, Green earned an F rating from the industry-aligned Stand with Crypto group after voting against both the GENIUS stablecoin legislation and the Clarity Act. Green had also publicly warned that digital assets could undermine the dollar’s global dominance and pose risks to national security. In contrast, Menefee received an A rating from the same group and has spoken positively about blockchain’s potential to improve trust, transparency, and efficiency in finance and supply chains.

Once the results became clear, Fairshake released a confrontational statement: “Rep. Green’s defeat proves that anti-crypto hostility carries real electoral consequences, making him the first Democratic incumbent this cycle to lose his seat. Fairshake was the difference-maker in this race, and we will continue to aggressively back leaders like Rep. Menefee across the country.”

The crypto lobby has been credited with giving a massive boost to Donald Trump during the 2024 presidential election following a speech he gave at the 2024 Bitcoin conference in Nashville, Tennessee, where he made several positive statements regarding bitcoin and crypto, including a stated desire to establish a strategic bitcoin reserve. Industry-backed super PACs, including Fairshake, Protect Progress, and Defend American Jobs, spent more than 3 million across federal races that cycle, according to OpenSecrets. Major donors included Coinbase, Ripple, Jump Crypto, and Andreessen Horowitz. A recent New York Times report has pointed to similar concerns around the money involved in the CFTC’s strong stance regarding federal authority over the emerging prediction markets and crypto industries. Among the claims, the report alleges that senior CFTC officials under then-acting chair Caroline Pham helped clear regulatory hurdles for several firms tied to Trump family business interests.

The Trump family’s involvement in the crypto industry more generally has also been heavily criticized for “unprecedented corruption.” Duke University lecturing fellow Lee Reiners recently indicated that the Trump-linked World Liberty Financial stands to benefit tremendously from the Clarity Act, which is currently making its way through the Senate. Reiners, a former bank examiner, analyzed World Liberty Financial’s WLFI token and concluded it functions as an unregistered security under the Howey test due to its structure, profit expectations, and centralized control. If passed as written, the legislation would likely reclassify those tokens as network commodities, moving them outside much of the securities-law framework for disclosures and antifraud enforcement. Critics say that would benefit the Trump family’s crypto interests and deepen concerns about self-dealing and conflicts of interest during the president’s second term. The Clarity Act is intended to clarify how the crypto industry will be regulated in the United States. The specifics of the legislation are still being worked out after intense debate between crypto and banking interests in the U.S. Notably, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong threw his weight around back in March by indicating a previous draft of the bill would be worse than having no bill at all. He cited provisions that would amount to a de facto ban on tokenized equities and impose overly broad restrictions on decentralized finance. Coinbase is a massive contributor to the aforementioned crypto PACs, having given more than million to Fairshake and its affiliates during the 2024 cycle and committing an additional million for the 2026 midterms, according to CNBC. Although the crypto industry has spent massively on political campaigns over the past few years and they were successful in this most recent runoff election in Texas, the Clarity Act is still not a slam dunk, as Democrats (and some Republicans) are pushing for ethics language to prevent the sort of corrupt profiteering by lawmakers that Trump has been alleged to have conducted. #Cryptos #Powerful #PAC #Sends #Warning #Politicians #Resistance #FutileBitcoin,CLARITY Act,Donald Trump,Fairshake,Marc Andreessen

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Congressman Al Green, the incumbent representative for the 18th Congressional District in Texas, lost to fellow House Representative Christian Menefee in a runoff election in the Democratic primary for a seat in Congress on Tuesday, and one crypto-focused political action committee (PAC) announced that the loss should be taken as a warning shot to future candidates. Fairshake and other crypto-related PACs dumped millions of dollars into the primary election to oust Green, who has held a seat in Congress for twenty years.

The contest played out across multiple stages following Republican-led redistricting that effectively merged elements of two Houston-area congressional districts into one. The redraw consolidated portions of both incumbents’ districts into a newly drawn 18th, forcing the two Democratic incumbents to compete against each other. In the March primary, both Menefee and Green advanced as the top two finishers but fell short of a majority, forcing the runoff, which Menefee won with nearly 70% of the vote. The victory in the safely Democratic district means Menefee is heavily favored in the November general election.

Fairshake and its affiliated group Protect Progress poured millions into backing Menefee, with The Texas Tribune reporting more than $4 million in outside spending from one crypto super PAC alone, the Fairshake-affiliated Protect Progress. According to The Block, Green earned an F rating from the industry-aligned Stand with Crypto group after voting against both the GENIUS stablecoin legislation and the Clarity Act. Green had also publicly warned that digital assets could undermine the dollar’s global dominance and pose risks to national security. In contrast, Menefee received an A rating from the same group and has spoken positively about blockchain’s potential to improve trust, transparency, and efficiency in finance and supply chains.

Once the results became clear, Fairshake released a confrontational statement: “Rep. Green’s defeat proves that anti-crypto hostility carries real electoral consequences, making him the first Democratic incumbent this cycle to lose his seat. Fairshake was the difference-maker in this race, and we will continue to aggressively back leaders like Rep. Menefee across the country.”

The crypto lobby has been credited with giving a massive boost to Donald Trump during the 2024 presidential election following a speech he gave at the 2024 Bitcoin conference in Nashville, Tennessee, where he made several positive statements regarding bitcoin and crypto, including a stated desire to establish a strategic bitcoin reserve. Industry-backed super PACs, including Fairshake, Protect Progress, and Defend American Jobs, spent more than $133 million across federal races that cycle, according to OpenSecrets. Major donors included Coinbase, Ripple, Jump Crypto, and Andreessen Horowitz.

A recent New York Times report has pointed to similar concerns around the money involved in the CFTC’s strong stance regarding federal authority over the emerging prediction markets and crypto industries. Among the claims, the report alleges that senior CFTC officials under then-acting chair Caroline Pham helped clear regulatory hurdles for several firms tied to Trump family business interests.

The Trump family’s involvement in the crypto industry more generally has also been heavily criticized for “unprecedented corruption.” Duke University lecturing fellow Lee Reiners recently indicated that the Trump-linked World Liberty Financial stands to benefit tremendously from the Clarity Act, which is currently making its way through the Senate. Reiners, a former bank examiner, analyzed World Liberty Financial’s WLFI token and concluded it functions as an unregistered security under the Howey test due to its structure, profit expectations, and centralized control. If passed as written, the legislation would likely reclassify those tokens as network commodities, moving them outside much of the securities-law framework for disclosures and antifraud enforcement. Critics say that would benefit the Trump family’s crypto interests and deepen concerns about self-dealing and conflicts of interest during the president’s second term.

The Clarity Act is intended to clarify how the crypto industry will be regulated in the United States. The specifics of the legislation are still being worked out after intense debate between crypto and banking interests in the U.S. Notably, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong threw his weight around back in March by indicating a previous draft of the bill would be worse than having no bill at all. He cited provisions that would amount to a de facto ban on tokenized equities and impose overly broad restrictions on decentralized finance. Coinbase is a massive contributor to the aforementioned crypto PACs, having given more than $75 million to Fairshake and its affiliates during the 2024 cycle and committing an additional $25 million for the 2026 midterms, according to CNBC.

Although the crypto industry has spent massively on political campaigns over the past few years and they were successful in this most recent runoff election in Texas, the Clarity Act is still not a slam dunk, as Democrats (and some Republicans) are pushing for ethics language to prevent the sort of corrupt profiteering by lawmakers that Trump has been alleged to have conducted.

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Congressman Al Green, the incumbent representative for the 18th Congressional District in Texas, lost to fellow House Representative Christian Menefee in a runoff election in the Democratic primary for a seat in Congress on Tuesday, and one crypto-focused political action committee (PAC) announced that the loss should be taken as a warning shot to future candidates. Fairshake and other crypto-related PACs dumped millions of dollars into the primary election to oust Green, who has held a seat in Congress for twenty years.

The contest played out across multiple stages following Republican-led redistricting that effectively merged elements of two Houston-area congressional districts into one. The redraw consolidated portions of both incumbents’ districts into a newly drawn 18th, forcing the two Democratic incumbents to compete against each other. In the March primary, both Menefee and Green advanced as the top two finishers but fell short of a majority, forcing the runoff, which Menefee won with nearly 70% of the vote. The victory in the safely Democratic district means Menefee is heavily favored in the November general election.

Fairshake and its affiliated group Protect Progress poured millions into backing Menefee, with The Texas Tribune reporting more than $4 million in outside spending from one crypto super PAC alone, the Fairshake-affiliated Protect Progress. According to The Block, Green earned an F rating from the industry-aligned Stand with Crypto group after voting against both the GENIUS stablecoin legislation and the Clarity Act. Green had also publicly warned that digital assets could undermine the dollar’s global dominance and pose risks to national security. In contrast, Menefee received an A rating from the same group and has spoken positively about blockchain’s potential to improve trust, transparency, and efficiency in finance and supply chains.

Once the results became clear, Fairshake released a confrontational statement: “Rep. Green’s defeat proves that anti-crypto hostility carries real electoral consequences, making him the first Democratic incumbent this cycle to lose his seat. Fairshake was the difference-maker in this race, and we will continue to aggressively back leaders like Rep. Menefee across the country.”

The crypto lobby has been credited with giving a massive boost to Donald Trump during the 2024 presidential election following a speech he gave at the 2024 Bitcoin conference in Nashville, Tennessee, where he made several positive statements regarding bitcoin and crypto, including a stated desire to establish a strategic bitcoin reserve. Industry-backed super PACs, including Fairshake, Protect Progress, and Defend American Jobs, spent more than $133 million across federal races that cycle, according to OpenSecrets. Major donors included Coinbase, Ripple, Jump Crypto, and Andreessen Horowitz.

A recent New York Times report has pointed to similar concerns around the money involved in the CFTC’s strong stance regarding federal authority over the emerging prediction markets and crypto industries. Among the claims, the report alleges that senior CFTC officials under then-acting chair Caroline Pham helped clear regulatory hurdles for several firms tied to Trump family business interests.

The Trump family’s involvement in the crypto industry more generally has also been heavily criticized for “unprecedented corruption.” Duke University lecturing fellow Lee Reiners recently indicated that the Trump-linked World Liberty Financial stands to benefit tremendously from the Clarity Act, which is currently making its way through the Senate. Reiners, a former bank examiner, analyzed World Liberty Financial’s WLFI token and concluded it functions as an unregistered security under the Howey test due to its structure, profit expectations, and centralized control. If passed as written, the legislation would likely reclassify those tokens as network commodities, moving them outside much of the securities-law framework for disclosures and antifraud enforcement. Critics say that would benefit the Trump family’s crypto interests and deepen concerns about self-dealing and conflicts of interest during the president’s second term.

The Clarity Act is intended to clarify how the crypto industry will be regulated in the United States. The specifics of the legislation are still being worked out after intense debate between crypto and banking interests in the U.S. Notably, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong threw his weight around back in March by indicating a previous draft of the bill would be worse than having no bill at all. He cited provisions that would amount to a de facto ban on tokenized equities and impose overly broad restrictions on decentralized finance. Coinbase is a massive contributor to the aforementioned crypto PACs, having given more than $75 million to Fairshake and its affiliates during the 2024 cycle and committing an additional $25 million for the 2026 midterms, according to CNBC.

Although the crypto industry has spent massively on political campaigns over the past few years and they were successful in this most recent runoff election in Texas, the Clarity Act is still not a slam dunk, as Democrats (and some Republicans) are pushing for ethics language to prevent the sort of corrupt profiteering by lawmakers that Trump has been alleged to have conducted.

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Vertu is a company known for making extraordinarily gaudy smartphones with outdated technology, luxe materials, and eye-watering prices. Now the brand is here to meet the AI moment with its first-ever book-like folding phone, complete with an AI agent on board.
The company announced the AlphaFold smartphone on Thursday—targeting business executives—which comes outfitted with the Hermes Agent. This agent can purportedly handle schedules and tasks on a user’s behalf and “connect to enterprise systems.” Agents are big in the smartphone world right now, with companies like Google and Samsung offering ways for Gemini on Android smartphones to perform tasks such as booking an Uber or ordering DoorDash. Vertu is cashing in on that trend.
But the company has a checkered past. Originally, Vertu was a Nokia subsidiary that made handcrafted luxury Nokia phones (in the UK!) in the early 2000s. Each phone came with access to a live concierge service. The company faced headwinds with the smartphone revolution and fell behind the times. Vertu then changed hands over several years, with various acquisitions, eventually shuttering its UK factory and laying off staff.
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In the last few years, the company has been churning out luxury Android smartphones again—it debuted a folding flip phone last year that starts at $4,300 (with a calfskin backplate, naturally). In late 2025, it unveiled the Agent Q, which it calls the “world’s first AI agent phone for entrepreneurs.”
While the company still claims a British heritage, its phones are no longer made in the UK, and according to its website, its head office is in Hong Kong. Vertu spokesperson Viki You tells WIRED that the phones are “still handcrafted,” but they’re assembled in China. “We have different factories,” You says, noting that the company sources its high-end materials from other countries, like the full-grain calfskin from Italy.
The AlphaFold has all the markings of a high-end Android smartphone. It’s powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset from 2025 and is 11.8 millimeters thick when folded, 5.4 mm when unfolded. Not quite as svelte as the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7, but not far off from competitors like the Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold. Vertu says the hinge and screen architecture were tested to withstand 650,000 folds, which is more than Samsung’s claim of 500,000 folds.
Inside is a 6,500-mAh silicon-anode battery, an up-and-coming battery technology that’s been making waves in Chinese smartphones and has only recently made its way into Western smartphones from the likes of Motorola. There’s 65-watt fast charging, a 120-Hz screen refresh rate for the inner 8.05-inch screen, and a 6.53-inch outer screen. There’s a triple-camera system with a 50-megapixel main camera, a 50-megapixel ultrawide, and a 5-megapixel telephoto.

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Vertu is a company known for making extraordinarily gaudy smartphones with outdated technology, luxe materials, and eye-watering prices. Now the brand is here to meet the AI moment with its first-ever book-like folding phone, complete with an AI agent on board.

The company announced the AlphaFold smartphone on Thursday—targeting business executives—which comes outfitted with the Hermes Agent. This agent can purportedly handle schedules and tasks on a user’s behalf and “connect to enterprise systems.” Agents are big in the smartphone world right now, with companies like Google and Samsung offering ways for Gemini on Android smartphones to perform tasks such as booking an Uber or ordering DoorDash. Vertu is cashing in on that trend.

But the company has a checkered past. Originally, Vertu was a Nokia subsidiary that made handcrafted luxury Nokia phones (in the UK!) in the early 2000s. Each phone came with access to a live concierge service. The company faced headwinds with the smartphone revolution and fell behind the times. Vertu then changed hands over several years, with various acquisitions, eventually shuttering its UK factory and laying off staff.

In the last few years, the company has been churning out luxury Android smartphones again—it debuted a folding flip phone last year that starts at $4,300 (with a calfskin backplate, naturally). In late 2025, it unveiled the Agent Q, which it calls the “world’s first AI agent phone for entrepreneurs.”

While the company still claims a British heritage, its phones are no longer made in the UK, and according to its website, its head office is in Hong Kong. Vertu spokesperson Viki You tells WIRED that the phones are “still handcrafted,” but they’re assembled in China. “We have different factories,” You says, noting that the company sources its high-end materials from other countries, like the full-grain calfskin from Italy.

The AlphaFold has all the markings of a high-end Android smartphone. It’s powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset from 2025 and is 11.8 millimeters thick when folded, 5.4 mm when unfolded. Not quite as svelte as the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7, but not far off from competitors like the Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold. Vertu says the hinge and screen architecture were tested to withstand 650,000 folds, which is more than Samsung’s claim of 500,000 folds.

Inside is a 6,500-mAh silicon-anode battery, an up-and-coming battery technology that’s been making waves in Chinese smartphones and has only recently made its way into Western smartphones from the likes of Motorola. There’s 65-watt fast charging, a 120-Hz screen refresh rate for the inner 8.05-inch screen, and a 6.53-inch outer screen. There’s a triple-camera system with a 50-megapixel main camera, a 50-megapixel ultrawide, and a 5-megapixel telephoto.

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Welcome to your guide to Pips, the latest game in the New York Times catalogue.

Released in August 2025, Pips puts a unique spin on dominoes, creating a fun single-player experience that could become your next daily gaming habit.

Currently, if you’re stuck, the game only offers to reveal the entire puzzle, forcing you to move on to the next difficulty level and start over. However, we have you covered! Below are piecemeal answers that will serve as hints so that you can find your way through each difficulty level.

How to play Pips

If you’ve ever played dominoes, you’ll have a passing familiarity with how Pips is played. As we’ve shared in our previous hints stories for Pips, the tiles, like dominoes, are placed vertically or horizontally and connect with each other. The main difference between a traditional game of dominoes and Pips is the color-coded conditions you have to address. The touching tiles don’t necessarily have to match.

The conditions you have to meet are specific to the color-coded spaces. For example, if it provides a single number, every side of a tile in that space must add up to the number provided. It is possible — and common — for only half a tile to be within a color-coded space.

Here are common examples you’ll run into across the difficulty levels:

Number: All the pips in this space must add up to the number.
Equal: Every domino half in this space must be the same number of pips.
Not Equal: Every domino half in this space must have a completely different number of pips.
Less than: Every domino half in this space must add up to less than the number.
Greater than: Every domino half in this space must add up to more than the number.

If an area does not have any color coding, it means there are no conditions on the portions of dominoes within those spaces.

Easy difficulty hints, answers for May 28 Pips

Greater Than (4): Everything in this space must be greater than 4. The answer is 3-3, placed horizontally.

Greater Than (3): Everything in this space must be greater than 3. The answer is 4-0, placed horizontally.

Greater Than (2): Everything in this space must be greater than 2. The answer is 3-1, placed vertically.

Equal (1): Everything in this space must be equal to 1. The answer is 3-1, placed vertically; 2-1, placed vertically.

Equal (2): Everything in this space must be equal to 2. The answer is 2-2, placed horizontally.

Greater Than (6): Everything in this space must be greater than 6. The answer is 4-4, placed horizontally.

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Medium difficulty hints, answers for May 28 Pips

Not Equal: Everything in this space must be different. The answer is 4-3, placed vertically; 5-5, placed vertically.

Number (5): Everything in this space must add up to 5. The answer is 5-5, placed vertically.

Number (4): Everything in this space must add up to 4. The answer is 4-4, placed horizontally.

Equal (2): Everything in this space must be equal to 2. The answer is 5-2, placed horizontally; 2-2, placed horizontally.

Not Equal: Everything in this red space must be different. The answer is 5-6, placed vertically; 4-4, placed horizontally; 3-3, placed horizontally; 2-2, placed horizontally.

Hard difficulty hints, answers for May 28 Pips

Number (6): Everything in this space must add up to 6. The answer is 3-6, placed horizontally.

Equal (3): Everything in this space must be equal to 3. The answer is 3-6, placed horizontally; 3-3, placed vertically; 3-2, placed horizontally.

Greater Than (1): Everything in this space must be greater than 1. The answer is 3-2, placed horizontally.

Number (6): Everything in this space must add up to 6. The answer is 6-5, placed vertically.

Number (6): Everything in this space must add up to 6. The answer is 6-5, placed vertically; 1-0, placed vertically.

Equal (0): Everything in this space must be equal to 0. The answer is 1-0, placed vertically; 0-0, placed horizontally.

Not Equal: Everything in this space must be different. The answer is 1-4, placed vertically; 3-0, placed vertically; 2-6, placed vertically.

Less Than (3): Everything in this space must be less than 3. The answer is 0-6, placed vertically.

Greater Than (3): Everything in this space must be greater than 3. The answer is 4-6, placed vertically.

Equal (6): Everything in this space must be equal to 6. The answer is 0-6, placed vertically; 4-6, placed vertically; 6-6, placed vertically; 6-1, placed vertically.

Equal (1): Everything in this space must be equal to 1. The answer is 1-3, placed vertically; 6-1, placed vertically; 1-1, placed vertically.

Number (3): Everything in this space must add up to 3. The answer is 1-3, placed vertically

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Welcome to your guide to Pips, the latest game in the New York Times catalogue.
Released in August 2025, Pips puts a unique spin on dominoes, creating a fun single-player experience that could become your next daily gaming habit.
Currently, if you’re stuck, the game only offers to reveal the entire puzzle, forcing you to move on to the next difficulty level and start over. However, we have you covered! Below are piecemeal answers that will serve as hints so that you can find your way through each difficulty level.

How to play Pips

Here are common examples you’ll run into across the difficulty levels:

Number: All the pips in this space must add up to the number.
Equal: Every domino half in this space must be the same number of pips.
Not Equal: Every domino half in this space must have a completely different number of pips.
Less than: Every domino half in this space must add up to less than the number.
Greater than: Every domino half in this space must add up to more than the number.